Very sturdy rogues.
Several have exploited your worlds.
With no needs, and in no hurry
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I went off with my hands in my torn coat pockets;
my overcoat too was becoming ideal;
I travelled beneath the sky,
Muse! and I was your vassal;
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Blackcurrant river rolls unknown in strange valleys;
the voices of a hundred rooks go with it,
the true benevolent voice of angles:
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When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
- One fine evening, you've had enough of beer and lemonade,
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I.
That idol, black eyes and yellow mop, without parents or court,
nobler than Mexican and Flemish fables;
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These are cities!
And this is the people for whom these
Alleghenys and Lebanons of dream have been raised!
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From a golden step,-- among silk cords,
green velvets, gray gauzes,
and crystal disks that
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Among the foliage, green casket flecked with gold;
in the uncertain foliage that blossoms
with gorgeous flowers where sleeps the kiss,
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HE - Your breast on my breast,
Eh ? We could go,
With our nostrils full of air,
Into the cool light
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The pigeons which flutter in the meadow,
the game which runs and sees in the dark,
the water animals, the animal enslaved,
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